We visited The Grottos this morning and took the short trail to the cascades. This is something we like to do each visit to Aspen. We were amazed to only see one car in the small parking lot when we arrived, but when we left, there were 6 cars and a lot of hikers. All appeared to be taking the long trail back to the Grottos and the top of the Cascades.
The afternoon event was a concert by Ellen Stapenhorst. She is a folk singer in the traditional mold, singing a wide variety of self written songs about various topics. A couple of her songs had political overtones with most addressing various events in her life. She is quite a breath of fresh air with her concert being a mix of story telling and singing songs. Quite the free spirit.
Mack sang most of the songs, but Chris Nole sang 3 songs. The crowd was very lively and sang along with nearly all of the songs. A couple of times Mack stepped away from the microphone and just let the crowd sing.
At the end, Mack's wife Rachel and their son Hyden joined Mack on stage for the encore.
4 comments:
Gee the Grottos look great , really nice . Nice you got to enjoy lunch with Mack too . Concerts sounded wonderful . Great photos , enjoy the rest of the time there . Pat
I always enjoyed going to the Grottos as well. We usually took a sack lunch.Very peaceful!
Kevin Costner used to have a ranch in the valley along that highway going to the Grottos. We’d always stop on our way to scout him out! HA!
Nice that you could catch up with Mack.
What did Rachel and Hayden sing with Mack?
Good to see Ellen S. participating.
Kathy
The Grotto's picture is very beautiful.Wow that is nice that you got to have lunch with Mack . Concert from Ellen sounds really good. Chris and Mack together in concert it's awesome!
Sounds like a wonderful day! Where did you have lunch with Mack? I'm sure their concert was great. I heard a little bit of it from clips that were posted. Gail
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